ERICKSON RECEIVES TOP AWARD IN ARCHITECTURE
Canadian architect Arthur Erickson is this year’s winner of the Gold Medal Award issued by the American Institute of Architects.
The AIA medal, established in 1907, is awarded for lifetime achievement and is said to be the architectural profession’s highest honor. Former winners include Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius.
The 61-year-old architect was cited for “his creative imagination to build constructively toward the profession’s future” during his 25-year career. He will receive the award in June at the 1986 AIA National Convention in San Antonio.
Erickson’s firm (with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles) has built many distinctive structures in Canada and has designed the proposed Canadian Embassy in Washington.
The Los Angeles office is responsible for the design of the 11-acre California Plaza project at Bunker Hill, as well as the Continental Plaza Building nearing completion on Olive Street, the Marriott Hotel under construction in Woodland Hills and the new San Diego Convention Center. Another Erickson project, the Bella Lewitszky Dance Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, is on the drawing boards.
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